Trading Away Your Freedom is STUPID

Or, Welcome to the Gun Owner's Black Market

Yes, gentle readers, when the law is passed to require background checks on all gun purchases, there will be a de facto gun registry put in place.  Every gun purchased by a law-abiding citizen will be known about by your benevolent government.  All the information on those background checks will be placed into databases.  This, we are told, will prevent school shootings.

Does that mean that if there had been a background check that the Connecticut shooting wouldn't have taken place?

No.  It would have had no effect.  The gun owner was the perp's mother.  She had the guns legally.  He killed her, stole her guns, and took them to school.  No amount of background checks would have prevented this.

The proposed legislation isn't about safety.  Or preventing crime - after all, criminals won't submit themselves to such background checks.  For that matter, neither will American patriots.  To the left and their enablers of course, the terms American Patriot and criminal are synonyms.

Which brings us to the question: who has the most to fear from an armed and anonymous citizenry?

Your Ostrich Killer contends that your government does.  Which is why they want background checks - so that they will know where the guns are, so they can confiscate them before a revolution gets a good start.  The history of the 20th Century is rife with countries that have imposed such registration, only to then confiscate the guns and then decimate the citizen population afterward.  Twenty or more millions died because they were 'purged,' something that would have been more difficult for their executioners to accomplish had the citizenry been able to legally own guns.

So what can you do to stop this background check legislation?  Probably not a lot.  You've surely noticed a shortage of brains up on capitol hill, and that most of those with brains won't really listen to you.  But you have a civic duty to try.  So contact your representatives and senators, and tell them not to sign on to such legislation.

I doubt that will work, but you have to give it a try.  It's the right thing to do.  You could send a link to this blog to your rep, and let him / her know you agree with its general tone and will remember his / her vote on this issue come next election.

What's the right thing to do should such legislation pass?

An American will refuse to buy guns on the retail market, nor will they transfer them with the required paperwork.  They will do their gun trading on the black market.  The underground.  Cash or barter.  Your Ostrich Killer, should he wish to buy a gun after the passage of such legislation, will become a criminal under the proposed laws.  I don't worry a lot about that, as I will have the better part of 100,000,000 like-thinking patriots for company.  I don't think even the US has jail space for a small fraction of that number.

Will you be in that company of patriots?  Or are you content to prostrate yourself before your government and say to them 'do with me as you will, I trust you?'

Google this saying:  A people that will trade freedom for safety will wind up with neither.  That has been shown time and again throughout history to be absolutely true.  As you will discover, a lot of different people have said basically the same thing.  And they were all right.

". . . the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."  That's a direct lift from the Second Amendment, written in pretty plain English.  Is a national background check and its associated databases an infringement?

You bet it is.  It requires government permission for you to exercise your Constitutional right.  When permission is required, it is no longer a right, it is a government - granted permit.  The Constitution exists to define our INDIVIDUAL rights, and SPECIFICALLY forbids government to interfere with them.

Did you know that?  If not, read the Constitution complete sometime.  It's pretty short, about one cup of coffee's length.